Biathlon debacle: "This is like a 0: 4 in football against Austria"

After the historic debacle of German biathletes, the sporting director has sounded the alarm. "It's like a 0: 4 in football against Austria," said Bernd Eisenbichler after the debacle at the World Cup in Hochfilzen: "We have to analyze that clean, that was a bad result for the entire team."

In the sprint over 7.5 kilometers for the first time in the history of the skijagerinnen landed German in the top 40th Instead of making the bumpy start to the season in the previous week to forget Denise Herrmann and the others had to deal with a heavy setback.

"It was a shit and quite a disaster, we all sold well below value," said Herrmann, who, at 41, still delivered the best result for the German Ski Association (DSV). "I hope we can change the switch again very quickly."

"This is a disaster"

Also in the pursuit on Sunday is now not expected a good result - there is the starting order of the results of the individual race. "This is a disaster, there will be much to talk about," said record world champion Magdalena Neuner in her capacity as an ARD expert.

Sporting director Eisenbichler said that there would be "no actionism", that one would "not blame everything" on what one had built up. "The girls did a good job this summer, but they have to give an answer to that day."

Similarly rated it women's coach Kristian Mehringer, for the "absolutely nothing has fit together, as in Oberhof earlier this year." At the time, Karolin Horchler was ranked 34th best German. She missed in Hochfilzen as 64th even the qualification for the pursuit.

Now, as in the previous year, the German biathletes are threatening to stand behind the first two World Cups without a single podium. Hermann said: "It's all about mitigation, we have to go full throttle from the first meter."